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[Mitchell Reese <dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Firstly, thanks to all the devs working on the scopes - they've come a 
long way and are getting really usable. Secondly, the search and display 
of local scopes on a device needs work.

Currently I can swipe up from my phone to view all my scopes. The 
favourites have their own area, and the rest of the scopes have theirs. 
So far so good.

The issue comes with having lots of scopes installed - at the moment in 
my favourites I have 15 scopes - all of which get used to varying 
degrees. Aside from those, I have 42 other scopes installed. Searching 
through these to find something NOT in my favourites is tedious.

There is nothing to differentiate between scope aggregators (parent 
scopes) and scope sources (child scopes). This leads to a cluttered 
view, with no information as to how I can find scopes that use other 
scopes. I.e: with the default BQ images, there is the Today scope, with 
the calls, messages, etc., all of which have their own scopes. At the 
moment there's nothing to inform a user that the Calls and Messages 
scopes get used by the Today scope, etc. This also happens with the Food 
Aggregator Scope, default News Aggregator Scope, etc.

I know this area is under heavy development, and I look forward to 
seeing the next iteration of work. I think a better workflow would be to 
have 3 seperate areas, with different size icons to differentiate them - 
i.e., the Favourites (up the top, or on a separate page), the Aggregator 
Scopes (Large icons in the middle), and the Child/information Scopes 
(smaller icons at the bottom).

Cheers,

Mitchell